Jackie is completing her Ph.D. degree in Human Genetics under the mentorship of Dr. Timothy Hohman at the Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer’s Center's Computational Neurogenomics Team. She received her bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience and Cognitive Studies from Vanderbilt University. The focus of Jackie’s research is elucidating sex differences in the genetic architecture underlying resilience to Alzheimer’s disease. She will leverage multi-modal data from numerous studies of cognitive aging and implement novel sex-specific models to identify genes that protect the brain from the downstream consequences of Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology.

Dr. Corey Bolton is a clinical neuropsychologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Bolton’s research focuses on the use of novel methods for early identification of Alzheimer’s disease, with a particular focus on blood-based biomarkers. He currently receives funding from the National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association to better understand the ability of blood-based biomarkers to predict meaningful clinical changes in older adults, and to understand clinical, ethical, and social aspects of disclosing Alzheimer’s disease biomarker results to patients and their loved ones. He is also a collaborator with the Vanderbilt Memory and Aging Project and an investigator in the Vanderbilt Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. 

Dr. Bolton earned a doctorate in clinical psychology with a concentration in neuropsychology from Wheaton College in suburban Chicago. Prior to joining VMAC, he completed a doctoral internship in clinical neuropsychology at Rush University Medical Center and a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2022.

Hudson Robb  is completing his Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience under the mentorship of Dr. Angela Jefferson at the Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer’s Center. Before joining VMAC, Hudson worked in the Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery. His current research focuses on how markers of oxygen metabolism relate to cognition and brain pathology. More generally, Hudson’s work will utilize various imaging modalities and neuropsychological testing to study changes across the cognitive aging spectrum.

Alexis Yates is a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Materials Science Program, co-advised by Dr. Angela Jefferson and Dr. Ethan Lippmann (ChBE). Before attending Vanderbilt, Alexis earned her bachelor of science in biochemistry from Biola University. Her research is focused on engineering perfused cerebrovascular tissue models. She is primarily interested in understanding the relationship between age-related hemodynamic risk factors and neurovascular disfunction and neurodegeneration.